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Official website:
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
PhD student in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral biology, focusing on affective states and acoustic communication in gerbils
University of Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany
PhD student researching baboon communication at RHUL & UCL with LIDo🐒
Interested in animal social behaviour, cognition and ethics🐜
Open and inclusive science✨
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interested in animal sociality et al. (networks; primates; social relationships)
currently studying spider monkeys in Mexico and Costa Rica.
Ethology and conservation 🐾🌿🪶
Studying individual differences, communication and cognition | PhD at MPI Animal Behavior, Orangutan cognition and curiosity 🦧🍃
Neuroscientist and connectome researcher. Human & chimpanzee brain connectivity / microstructure using diffusion MRI. Learning & brain plasticity @ MPI CBS, Leipzig
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Anthropologist/Primatologist. Assistant Professor @ UTRGV 🤠✌🏼 PhD from Texas A&M (2022). Fulbright (🇮🇩) alum. Books, sci-fi/fantasy, memes, & puns enthusiast 🏳️🌈✨ Views are my own.
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Linguist (syn-sem-prag interface) • gesture & dance in human & non-human primates • cross-linguistic diversity • evolutionary biology
Professor of Linguistics, University of Oslo 🇬🇧🇳🇴🌱 PhD Linguistics MIT
Views expressed are mine, repost ≠ endorsement
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Eccellenza Professor at UZH Evolutionary Anthropology 🦍 P.I. APE Group 🦍 Co-director Nimba Chimpanzee Project | Ape material culture | Conservation. She/her
www.apegroup-uzh.com
Primatologist | Group leader & Lecturer @ Uni Tübingen | Freigeist Fellow | primate communication - behavioural plasticity - language evolution 🐵 🗣️
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Analysing collectives of living dinosaurs. Discoverer of multilevel societies. Watcher of fishers and dolphins. Modeller of emergent phenomena. Caretaker of long term guineafowl, fairywren and chough projects. A/Prof @ Australian National Uni.
Chimpanzee and monkey research project in the Moyen-Bafing National Park Guinea, led by @northernlimitpt @LirSamuni and @nakedprimate
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the EPP BA/BSc at the University of Warwick. My UKRI-funded FLF Communicative Mind project researches human and non-human great ape communication and cognition, and the evolution of language. 🇪🇺🍉 he/him
Biologist, primate fan, sport addict, photographer, try to understand how animals process the world and communicate about it
Professor, Psychology- Durham University. Comparative Cognition and Cross-Cultural Development Lab. Primatology, developmental psychology, bonobos, chimpanzees. Interested in evolution and development of empathy, language, culture, social cognition
Research on and conservation of wild chimpanzees in the Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, since 1979.
www.taichimpproject.org
Professor of Animal Behaviour @ University of Bristol | cetacean communication and cognition group | loves dogs | PI @ Shark Bay Dolphin Research | she/her 🏳️🌈
Pan behavioral ecologist + conservationist | co-director of Moyen Bafing Chimp Project and the BonDiv Project | Coordinator for the Western Chimp Action Plan
We are a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants and mentorship for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour
We want to understand and predict animal decision-making in the natural world | Max Planck Institute in Konstanz, Germany. Photo by Simon Gingins
Doing a PhD (or trying to) in the realm of evolutionary language science @Uni Zurich, generally interested in linguistic and cultural diversity.
Background pic: one of Matthew Wongs masterpieces
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Cognitive scientist and conversation analyst. Associate Professor at UC San Diego. Director of Comparative Cognition Lab at UCSD. Proud father of two.
PhD, Associate Professor at Paris Nanterre Univ 🐥🐒👶 - she/her
Interested in gestures and multimodal communication in primates, birds, and all beings who move to communicate 💃
linktr.ee/julietteaychet
Professor of Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at University of Birmingham, UK 🌈
❤️ Iconicity, R, open science, yoga, techno
The Department of Psychology at Durham University
Investigating human nature & processes underpinning our thoughts, feelings, & motivations
durham.ac.uk/departments/academi…
PhD | Now freezing in fantastic Leipzig (@mpicbs.bsky.social, @FriedericiLab). Interested in language and primate brain evolution | neuroanatomy | art | music
yannickbecker.weebly.com
Depuis 1979 la Fondation Fyssen s'engage à servir le progrès des sciences cognitives
Working on social cognition in human and non-human primates - currently Postdoc in the team 'Pathways to Language' (Department of Paleoanthropology, University of Tübingen)
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Postdoc at University of Konstanz • Messerli Research Institute • 🐕 Dogs 🤸 Children 🐵 Chimpanzees
Interested in social learning & culture, cooperation & social cognition
MSc was at the University of St Andrews
Scottish 🏴 she/her
www.louisemackie.org
🏳️🌈 PhD Candidate - Great Ape Wellbeing at University of Sussex. Using thermal imagery to assess wellbeing in gorillas & chimpanzees 🐵 PSGB Student Officer 🤓
PhD | Exploring elephant gestures & chimp drumming and gestures |
Elephant conservation at Marataba Conservation
Language, Psychology, Culture, Philosophy, Society, Evolution • When not doing science I dance the lindy hop
linktr.ee/thomscottphillips
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Studies great ape cognition and behavior at Leipzig Zoo.
Themes: metacognition, communication, spatial cognition.
ManyPrimates 3 - Inference by exclusion.
Associate Professor at the University of Geneva. Primatologist. Comparative psychologist. Co-director Bugoma Primate Conservation Project.